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Taiwan accuses Canada of 'well-planned trap' By WILL GRIMSLEY AP Special Correspondent MONTREAL "It was a trap, a well-planned trap," the young Chinese man with the horn-rimmed spectacles said bitterly. "Canada waited until the last minute and backed the IOC into a corner. "The IOC had to choose between principle and survival. It chose survival. How sad.

Without principle, the Games themselves soon will be dead." Frustration and disappointment saturated the subterranean headquarters of the Republic of China Taiwan yesterday in apartment CV116 at the Olympic Village. Victor Yuen, secretary of the Taiwanese Olympic delegation, appeared on the verge of tears. Although the International Olympic Committee struggled with a face-saving escape and the powerful United States posed a possible threat to walk out, the skeleton Taiwanese delegation had surrendered all hope. It was preparing to go home. "We cannot abandon our name, our flag and our national pride," Yuen said.

These were the last minute-stipulations dictated by the Canadian government, leaving Taiwan's 43-member team stranded in Boston and Detroit without a change of clothing and without entry visas. Three telephones in the Taiwanese headquarters jingled constantly. "CBS calling from New York." "A film crew is outside." "Is it true the Taiwanese team has been called home." Yuen and an official hostess of Chinese descent were kept busy, apologizing that they had no hard news yet. "Our chef-de-mission, Lawrence Ting, is waiting to be called by the IOC." Yuen explained. "He will tell the IOC of his dismay and disillusionment and then he will hold an official press conference maybe." There was no question that Taiwanese sentiment was the same elsewhere.

"We compromised in Rome in 1960," the secretary said. "We cannot yield more of our pride. If you make two steps backward, someone moves two steps forward. Retreat must stop somewhere." The Taiwanese offices were festooned with Montreal maps, schedules and Olympic portraits. There was a large poster depicting the various venues.

Yuen had carefully crossed out those venues in which the Taiwanese did not plan to compete volleyball, boxing, canoeing, field hockey. A pencil was being sharpened to make big "Xs" in the other squares. "Mr. Ting and I arrived here June 29 on tourist visas." the young official said. "That was before this controversy broke.

Otherwise we would never have been admitted just like our team." Yuen said he and Ting had been virtually isolated at the Village. "We have not had contact with COJO (The Committee for the Organization of Jeaux Olympics) since June 21," he said. "If we did not have a television set, a radio and telephones we would know nothing that has happened. "We hear everything second hand." Yuen's responsibilities as delegation secretary has been to line up credentials and accommodations for his team's athletes and to supervise all paper work. "We have all the credentials everything is ready," he said.

"But no athletes." The Taiwanese miseries were compounded when all of the team's gage was delivered to the Dorval Airport in Montreal. "The athletes are in Boston and Detroit without a change of clothes." he said. "They are trying to live on $15 a day. I don't see how they do it." A horse belonging to the Taiwanese equestrian team also was dumped at the airport here. "We don't know where the groom is." Yuen said.

The Bolivans agreed to care for the horse. "I worry about our team." Yuen continued "This is not only a physical but a mental blow. They have trained so hard. It has been a tremendous expense for nothing. But we can compensate for money.

We can't compensate for broken pride." Yuen made no pretense at describing his bitterness over events of the last few days. "Canada knew six years ago of this situation but they hid their plans." he said. "They knew if thev had taken this action even a year ago the Games would have been taken away from them. So they waited until they knew the IOC could not act. "It was devious and unfair.

I fear the Olympics now may be. destroyed in the next 12 years." There was a knock at the door. A Village serviceman was delivering a dozen chairs. "These were ordered two weeks ago," Yuen shrugged. "Who is going to sit in them 0 dhr Hafetrsfiflb (Ealtfornian July 15, 1976 21 U.S.

threatens to withdraw IOC hatches new plan to save Games and honor of Taiwan By GEOFFREY MILLER AP Sports Writer MONTREAL (AP) Whose word will be law in Montreal's Olympic Stadium when the Games open Saturday 9 "That is our territory." say members of the International Olympic Committee. "We decide what happens there." But what will the government of Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Tru- deau do if the IOC defies its wishes and has two Taiwanese yachtsmen parading under the name of the Republic of China' 1 The U.S. Olympic Committee intervened in the dispute and indicated yesterday it might withdraw its team from the Games if Taiwan's rights are not respected and the Olympic charier is not honored. Royalty serves itself An Olympic attendant holds the sign of the Republic of China and walks into the Olympic Stadium during a practice run for Saturday's opening ceremonies in Montreal. Taiwan delegation would like to compete as Republic of China but Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau insists the team be called Laserphoto) Britain's Princess Anne and husband Mark Phillips serve themselves dinner last night at the cafeteria in the International Center in Montreal.

Couple will represent their country next week in the equestrian event at the Laserphoto) Alston eyes win LOS ANGELES (UPI) There's no question that Los Angeles Dodger manager Walt Altson will reach his 000th career win this season but when? The 23-year veteran manager sends Doug Rau. 7-6. to the mound tonight against the Chicago Cubs to get win No. 1998. And with the Dodgers scheduled to entertain Chicago.

Philadelphia, St. Louis and San Diego in the next nine days. Alston could get the big win at home. Alston is three victories away from reaching the 2.000 plateau, a level reached by only five managers in major league baseball history Connie Mack John McGraw Bucky Harris Joe McCarthy (2,126) and Leo Durocher The Dodgers begin the second half of the 1976 season with a nine-game homestand against the Cubs, who w'll send Rick Reuschel, 8-6, to the hill in the first of three-game series. Cleveland gets NHL franchise CHICAGO (AP) The National Hockey League announced here early today that approval has been given for the transfer of the California Seals to Cleveland, effective immediately.

Oakland was one of six United States cities to receive an NHL franchise on June 5, 1967. The team has never had a winning record and missed making the Stanley Cup playoffs seven of its nine years, including the last six seasons. Gale Sayers named SIU athletic director CARBONDALE, 111. (AP) Gale Sayers, former Chicago Bears star running back, was named athletic director at Southern Illinois University-Carbondale today. The 33-year-old Sayers will assume the position at the university effective Aug.

1. Sayers has been serving for the past Vk years in the athletic department of the University of Kansas. Flag races resume tonight The Americans are "seriously considering withdrawing from the Montreal Olympic Games." said Philip O. Krumm. president of the U.S.

Olympic Committee. The Taiwanese, encouraged by the American stand, dug in their heels and said they would not march in the parade under the Olympic flag instead of their own. one compromise plan suggested by the IOC. The latest ruling by the IOC is that two Taiwanese yachtsmen, already in this country, march in the opening parade under the banner of the Republic of China. The yachtsmen, brothers named Lim, got around Canada's entry ban because they have dual nationality and have U.S.

passports. They have been training at the Olympic yachting center at Kingston. for two weeks. Canada refused to allow the rest of Taiwan's team in because they use the name "The Republic of China." which is offensive to Canada's trading partner. Communist China.

But refusing to let 40 athletes in is a different proposition than ordering two yachtsmen out. And in Ottawa, a spokesman for Prime Minister Trudeau said "there is not spirit in the prime minister's office" to give in to pressure on the issue. Julian K. Roosevelt, a U.S. member on the IOC.

said. "We cannot force the Canadian government to do anything about the Taiwanese athletes held up in the United States. But we can insist that the two yachtsmen, whose entries have been accepted, are not expelled from Canada." The yachtsmen's entries have been accepted under the name Republic of China by the Montreal organizing committee, which has played no part in the Now that the All-Star Game is out of the way. it would be time to resume the pennant races if there were any. Major league baseball's four division races are so one-sided at this point that they make Jimmy Carter's race for the Democratic nomination look like a cliff-hanger.

Unless some of the front-runners collapse and some of the followers pick up the pace, the second half of the 1976 campaign will have them yawning in the aisles before long. There will be other events, of course, to stir interest. Will San Diego's Randy Jones win 30 games? Will the New York Mets' Dave Kingman hit 61 home runs? Will the Montreal Expos finish the season? But without a legitimate pennant race or two, baseball could be bad box office over the second half of the season. At present, the best record in baseball belongs to the Philadelphia Phillies. The Phils, often maligned in the past, have steamed out to a 56-25 mark and a whopping 10-game lead over the formerly mighty Pittsburgh Pirates in the National League East.

Is the pennant assured or will the 1976 Phils manage a collapse like their 1964 ancestors who dropped 10 straight games over the final two weeks of the By HOWARD SMITH AP Sports Writer season and blew a 6 -game lead? "Winning so much can spoil you." admits Phils centerfielder Garry Maddox. "but all it takes is one defeat to remind you that you can't let up for a minute in the National League." In the NL West, the world champion Cincinnati Reds are six games ahead of the runner-up Los Angeles Dodgers. The Reds have come through the first half of the season in fine shape despite injuries to second baseman Joe Morgan, catcher Johnny Bench and pitcher Don Gullett. The Reds have started the eight-man lineup that opened the World Series against Boston last October in only 17 games this season, winning 13 of them. "Even at less than 100 per cent, like we've been the first half of the season, we're better than the other teams," said Morgan.

"Once we get our regulars back, you'll see a different ballclub." The Reds are 53-33. Last season they were 56-29 at this time. "Considering the circumstances, there's nothing wrong with that record." said Morgan. Unless, of course, you're a Dodgers fan. In the American League, the rebuilt New York Yankees are the only club in the East over .500.

They lead the second-place Boston Red Sox by a comfortable 9M; games and. at this point anyway, have nothing to fear but fear itself. Yankees Manager Billy Martin admits he is surprised. "I knew we had a contender." said Martin, "but how can you tell in the spring where you'll be in the middle of July?" But Martin is a professional manager and professional managers are suspicious of large leads. "This isn't the time to let up." insists Martin.

"We've got to push harder and make things happen." In the AL West, the Kansas City Royals boast a seven-game lead over the second-place Texas Rangers, and Manager Whitey Herzog is not about to make any changes. "I feel what we have done so far has been right," said Herzog. "We are going to play the same type of game and scratch it out when we're not hitting. "We are going to have to upgrade our home run production, though," he adds. "We don't have a lot of power hitters, but we are capable of more homers than we have been hitting." TANK by Jeff Millar Bill Hinds RECOUNT.

political moves to exclude the Taiwanese. If the name of the Republic of China is carried aloft in the opening parade, the claims of the Olympic movement to be independent of politics and governments will be put to the test. The ball will be in Trudeau's court. In Olympic circles they tell a story of the Winter Games at Garmisch-Par- kenkirchen. Germany, in 1936 when Hitler was in power.

Signs at Olympic sites said "Dogs and Jews not allowed The president of the IOC. Count Henri de Baillet-Latour of Belgium, asked for a personal interview with Hitler and told him the signs were offensive. "Mr. President," said Hitler, "when you are invited to a friend's home, you do not tell him how to run it." Baillet-Latour replied: "Mr. Chancellor when the Olympic flag is raised over the stadium it is no longer part of Germany It is Olympia.

and we are the masters there." Next morning the signs had gone Lord Killanin. president of the IOC. has bitterly denounced Trudeau's government for what he calls a breach of faith. Ottawa gave the IOC a written pledge in 1969 that all athletes recognized by the ruling body would be freely admitted to Canada for the Montreal Games, "pursuant to the usual regulations." Killanin said he interpreted that as meaning subject to innoculations and other formalities. He never expected athletes from any country to be refused entry for political reasons.

Since then. Ottawa has recognized the Peking regime and withdrawn recognition of Taiwan. Hey, Henry! By BOB GREEN AP Sports Writer MONTREAL (AP) Dear Mr. Secretary: Where are you, Henry, now that we need you'' Drop what you're doing and get on up here. There are these problems in the Olympics.

Just your sort of thing. Very little to do with sports. It's politics. Henry, just plain politics. It's delicate stuff; all involved with national pride, wheat, flags, meetings, negotiations and carefully worded statements.

Also, there are threats and counter-threats and armed guards. People yelling at each other and that sort of thing. Good stuff. Henry. First of all there's the Canadians and Taiwanese.

Canada, as you know, has these strong ties with Communist China. All that wheat and money changing hands. But the International Olympic kind of folks. the Taiwanese. Canada doesn't want to let them into the country under the banner and name of Republic of China.

The Taiwanese threaten to pull out of the Games. That's where the United States got into the act. Maybe Jerry told you about it. The good ol' U.S.A. is on Taiwan's side, of course.

Some say it may pull its team out. too. Good stuff, huh? Interesting, don't you think? Then there are the Black African nations. (Yeah, kinda thought that'd grab your attention). They're getting in on it, too.

This one involves a New Zealand rugby team that was touring South Africa. Yep. South Africa. Apartheid. Race troubles.

It seems the Black African nations want New Zealand out. And if they don't go out. maybe the Africans will. Racial pride involved here. Complicated stuff.

Very touchy. But that's not all. Henry. Not by a long shot. Let me give you the kicker on it.

They may not be able to televise the Games. That's right. No TV. Can you imagine? Positively un-American. Just wait until Howard gets on it.

Man. But you're the man. Henry. Need you up here. Seems there's a strike of some technical people.

Could knock out this outfit called ORTO that's been set up to feed television organizations from all over the world. Something like 65 of them. With a potential audience of maybe a a billion, with a Now you just can't let that happen. They've got a couple of dandy airports up here. The Canadian Army is already on hand.

Security reasons, you know. They'd be available for ceremonial stuff. And there's the IOC. Lords by the dozen. A couple of princes.

A rajah. Indian turbans and African robes and morning coats and those kind of things. And politics, Henry. Touchy stuff. Crisis situations.

International diplomacy. Think of it, Henry. The world for an audience. How you gonna beat that? Come on up, Henry. We need you.

Very truly yours,.